A

Abhors- to hate
Affectioned- affected, one who puts on airs.
Alas the day- how tragic "Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?"
Alehouse- bar
An’t- are not
Anon- soon
Art- are
Aside- saying something when nobody on stage can hear you
Atch- musical round
Ay- yes

B

Bawbling- small.
Bawcock- fine fellow.
Bestowed- Present something
Beelzebub- devil
Biddy- common name for a hen.
Blazon- proclamation (like a coat-of-arms, or possibly, a triumphant blast on the trumpet).
Bonos dies- hello in an imitation of latin.
Bosom- chest/heart
Bowers- glades
Breast- voice
Brimstone- sulfur
Bring the device to the bar- bring the trick out into the open, to be judged (a flavor of the law is in these words).
Brock- badger or skunk.

C

Cantons- love songs (cantos).
Catch-song
Caterwauling- making a wailing noise like a cat. From Middle English cat + wawen, to wail (an onomatopoetic word, whose sound echoes its meaning).
Champain- flat, open country.
Chantry- chapel.
Cheveril glove- kid leather (easily stretchable).
Clodpole- blockhead.
Collier- coal-miner.
Compass- bring about.
Comptible- sensitive.
Contemned love- love that is given but not returned.
Cousin- on the same family..(not necessarily cousins)
Coxcomb- head
Cozier- cobbler.
Cubiculo- room, chamber
Cressida to this Troilus- female coin for a male coin

D

Dismount thy tuck- take thy rapier out of its scabbard or sheath.
Dissemble- deceive
Dog-expert
Dormouse valour- small amount of bravery.
Dram- small amount
Draught- beer

E

Elysium- heaven
Epistles- letters
Excellent Breasts- great singing voice
The Elephant- a hotel

F

Fools' zanies- clowns' assistants.
Fadge- fall into place.
Four Elements- earth, air, fire, and water: The Elizabethans believed that humanity was made up of various combinations of these four elements. The theory of humours was based upon this theory.

G

Gaskins- breeches
Good wench - good woman
Gull- deceive and trick.

H

Hard construction- uncharitable interpretation
Hart- male deer
Hither- to or towards a place
Hob, nob- hit or miss

J

Jest- a joke
Jot- second
Jove- (old word) used as god

K

Knave-jerk
Know'st Thou- do you know?

L

Loath- reluctant.
Liver, brain, and heart- the liver vied with the heart as the seat of the bodily passions in the Elizabethan physiology; the brain was to control the exercise of both the affections and the passions.
Leasing- the power of telling lies.
Leman- sweetheart

M

Maidenhead- virginity
Malapert- impertinent.
Maugre- despite
Methought- I thought
Misprision- misunderstanding
Mortal arbitrament- settle a dispute by duelling to the death of one contestant.
Motion of the liver- the liver was regarded as the seat of the passions.
Music From The Spheres- according to Pythagoras, the universe consisted of eight hollow spheres, inside of which the earth and all the other planets are fixed. The spheres produced a note, each of which combined to produce perfect harmony that is inaudible to the human ear. The earth is at the center of this system.
Mute- slave whose tongue has been removed for security reasons, or silent person. Both mutes and eunuchs were associated with oriental courts.

N

Nay-no

O

Orb- poetic word for world.
Oth- of the
Othergates- otherwise (than).
O'er- over

P

Peevishly- rudely
Pedant- someone who pays close attention to minor details and formal rules
Perchance- perhaps or maybe
Pickled Herring- fish stored in pickle juice (very old, stored for months)
Point-devise- to the point of perfection.
Pourquoi- why in french
Prithee- Please
Propertied me- made a tool of.
Puritan - goody two shoe

R

Rack'd- reference to the rack, an instrument of torture.
Receiving- sensitive understanding.
Rhyming Couplet: two lines with end rhyme

S

Saws- maxims, aphorisms.
Shent- rebuked, reproved, blamed
Sirrah- servant
'slight- by God's light (common Elizabethan oath)

T

Tabor- small drum used by professional clowns and jesters.
Tall- slang for brave
Thou- you
Thrice- three times
Tinkers- tinkers were a noisy lot and, being gypsies, had their own language (Romany).
'tis-it is
Thus-therefore
't- it "I will help you to ’t. But tell me true, are you not mad indeed? Or do you but counterfeit?"
'twas- It was
‘twere – it were
'twill-it will

U

Usurp- take/steal, betray

Unauspicious- ungrateful

V

Valor - Bravery
Vulgar- Explicit / Offensive

W

Welkin- sky, one of the elements.
Whither- where
Willow cabin- small hut with willow (the sign of unrequited love) before it.
Woo- win over